[Gsnds]

>climate change itself. Its negative consequences—such as drought and heat stress—would likely overwhelm any direct benefits that rising CO2 might offer plant life.

Climate Change is a buzzword, without going into the whole debate, the earth has and always will go through a series of warming and cooling, it happens to all of the planets within our own solar system, and even our own sun. Like the grand solar minimum.

>Rising CO2’s effect on crops could also harm human health. “We know unequivocally that when you grow food at elevated CO2 levels in fields, it becomes less nutritious,”

Yes but glyphosate and heavy metals in the atmosphere that rains down on the soil and a steady amount of lead water hydrating the crops are just fine and dandy

>Humans also require water to survive. That doesn't stop tsunamis from killing people.

Yes, but earthquakes cause tsunamis, and what causes the earthquakes? elevated levels of Co2? No it comes from a mixture of reasons, a diminishing magnetic field in the earths atmosphere, and a constant bombardment of solar winds that pound into the magma of the earth causing it to shift around

[Angostura]

This is the most garbled attempt to hand-wave away science that I've seen for a while.

> Climate Change is a buzzword,the earth has and always will go through a series of warming and cooling.

Wrong on it being a buzzword, correct on the Earth going through natural cycles. However you may find this video enlightening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5hs4KVeiAU in terms of CO2's role with respect to other factors.

> Yes but glyphosate and heavy metals in the atmosphere that rains down on the soil and a steady amount of lead water hydrating the crops are just fine and dandy

Errr - no? Just because one thing is bad, doesn't mean that something else can also be bad.

Regarding your suggestion that earthquakes are caused by > a diminishing magnetic field in the earths atmosphere, and a constant bombardment of solar winds that pound into the magma of the earth causing it to shift around

Where are you getting this stuff? certainly not from science books. Is there a Youtube channel somewhere that you are using to inform yourself? If so, you might want to work through this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoX-Xobr_TfH...

[slumdev]

> the earth has and always will go through a series of warming and cooling

This is a devastatingly ignorant attempt to handwave away the damage.

Warming and cooling changes, prior to the widespread use of hydrocarbon fuels, have taken place over tens/hundreds of thousands of years, with very few exceptions. Civilizations and species can adapt on these timescales. They can not adapt to the changes that we have already brought about, and they will not be able to adapt to the changes that will occur within the next hundred years.

[brockmuellers]

Addressing one of your points:

The earth absolutely goes through periods of warming and cooling, and has for billions of years. The issue we're encountering now is the speed of the change. Existing ecosystems can't adapt and move, like they typically do. Human societies also struggle to adapt. We unfortunately deeply depend on stability of climate - our national borders and economies and agricultural systems have a high inertia to change.

I suspect that you don't believe that current CO2 levels actually change the climate noticeably. I'd encourage you, and anyone agreeing with your comments, to spend a bit of time looking at scientific papers that may contradict that view. No politics, no bias, just the data. It doesn't hurt to read opposing views every now and then. I find it rather satisfying.

Some peer reviewed science, just for fun: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Examining%20...